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"Yahi hota hai, ishq karne se maar daalte hai" ’This is what happens. If you fall in love, you are killed’ NB - The sheer brutality of what is happening to women, especially young women and children, the hatred of young lovers (I would have burnt my daughter alive for premarital sex: Delhi gang-rape lawyer) - should make us think again about India’s ’greatest security threat’. If Asaram Bapu’s lawyer can tell the court that the accuser has a disease that draws her to men, is this not (…)

Praful Bidwai, India’s well known progressive commentator speaking on the need to reduce the power of military and militarism in India. He was speaking on the eve of by the India National Convention of Pakistan India People’s Forum on 20th September 2013 at an open public meeting held at the Ghalib Institute in New Delhi, India. (This audio recording was made by HK and is made available for educational and non commercial via sacw.net)

Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) is organising a 3-day National Convention on “Peace and Democracy in South Asia: The Emerging Challenges” as part of its ongoing program of building peace between the two nations by facilitating democratic and secular people-to-people exchanges between the two countries. This year, PIPFPD is also entering the 20th year of successful people-to-people intellectual and cultural exchanges between India, Pakistan and the disputed region of Jammu & Kashmir. The three day convention begins on 20th with a public meeting followed by National Convention on 21st and 22nd of September, 2013 at Gandhi Darshan, Rajghat, Delhi.

A circle of independent left activists based in Delhi produced filhaal - the hindi periodical for workers. Posted here full pdf copy of the journal issue from nov-dec 1977